Links: Reports on Gen Con 2011, Contract Negotiation & Chocolate Meeples

Links: Reports on Gen Con 2011, Contract Negotiation & Chocolate Meeples
From gallery of W Eric Martin
Let's kick off with lots of reports on Gen Con 2011:

• U.S. publisher Fantasy Flight Games posted a separate video covering each of the four days of Gen Con, with highlights of Descent: Journeys in the Dark (Second Edition), Wiz-War and Rex: Final Days of an Empire coming in the day three segment.

Steve Jackson Games posted a set of convention photos on Flicker

• On Opinionated Gamers, Dale Yu posted a mostly photographic summary of his one-day outing to Gen Con.

• Matt Carlson followed Yu on Opinionated Gamers with a loooong report of his single day at Gen Con.

• Pete Ruth at The Superfly Circus created a 14-page PDF of his Gen Con, complete with recommendations for food and drink after the show and plenty of phrases you wouldn't say in polite company.

• Trask at LivingDice.com has filed two Gen Con reports to date, the first featuring an H-bomb of hatred directed at Terrorwerks and the second featuring a report on the long-in-the-works Leviathans.

Episode 13 of "The State of Games" podcast includes coverage of both Gen Con and the World Boardgaming Championships, which took place the same weekend as Gen Con.

• Marc Specter gives his impressions of the con at Dice Hate Me.

• Eric Franklin wrote about his experiences as both a Gen Con attendee and Asmodee demo monkey in multiple posts on his blog Talking Game, but I'll instead highlight his game of the year post praising Gosu.

And posts of a non-Gen Con nature:

Belfort's Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim explain how to negotiate a contract with a board game publisher and what to expect in terms of payment. Part 3 of this topic is still to follow.

• Tom Gurganus at Go Forth and Game interviews Dennis Hoyle and James Tanner, founders of Bellwether Games, which debuted with Drop Site – winner of a game design contest that treated them to 1,000 free copies of their game as a prize.

• Want an unusual treat for your next game night? Joe Sack explains how to make chocolate meeples.

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